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The Soldier´s Art
Anthony Powell
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Description for The Soldier´s Art
Paperback. A novel that is written by Anthony Powell. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN
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Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099472476
SKU
V9780099472476
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About Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell was an only child, born in 1905. As a young man he worked for a crumbling publishing business whilst trying to find time to write novels. He moved in a bohemian world of struggling writers and artists, which was to provide the raw material for much of his fiction. During the Second World War he served in Military ... Read more
Reviews for The Soldier´s Art
One of the great novel-sequences in English Literature – a wonderful portrait of society, full of insight into the complexities of human behaviour, richly detailed and shrewdly funny.
William Boyd Discovering Anthony Powell’s "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been one of the greatest pleasures of my reading life. The cool elegance of the prose, the deliciously ... Read more
William Boyd Discovering Anthony Powell’s "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been one of the greatest pleasures of my reading life. The cool elegance of the prose, the deliciously ... Read more